[cabfpub] Immense Organization Legal Names in EV certificates

[Rich Smith]

Rick,
Is it Germany where you are running into this by chance?  It seems I've 
seen similar though I don't think to the extreme of 200 characters 
(yet).  Thus far I've generally been able to abbreviate down to 64, but 
that's probably mostly luck.  Given some of the names I've had to deal 
with, I can see it being a problem if they got even one word longer.  
I'm in agreement with you, so am also interested to see what others, 
especially those in Germany and other areas with similar naming 
conventions, might think.
-Rich

On 9/23/2016 3:47 PM, Rick Andrews wrote:
> Based on the last paragraph at EVG 9.2.1, I have a question about
> non-material words in legal names that are impossible to fully capture in
> any abbreviated form. We encounter legal names in excess of 200 characters.
> In one general case, a portion of the name clearly marks the publicly known
> part of the name and a portion of the name refers to a geographic
> association to which the organization belongs but this is recorded in the
> organization's full legal name.
>
> A literal example (made up): Symantec Corporation, a Certificate Authority
> that is a Member of the CA/Browser Forum and Operates in the US, UK, EMEA,
> and Asia Pacific Regions. I would propose that Symantec Corporation is
> material and the rest is not because it does not identify a more specific
> legal entity than Symantec Corporation. Therefore, non-material content
> removed, the Organization attribute could contain Symantec Corporation.
>
> Another: ABC Company, a licensed public accountancy practicing in the states
> of New York, California, Delaware, and Nevada. That would be ABC Company.
>
> The specific organizations subject to this situation are intentionally
> abstracted by examples. Does anyone disagree with what's material and
> non-material in these examples?
>
> -Rick
>
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